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Olly Robinson the racist

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posted on 7/6/21

Finn got 125 wickets..... woo hoo

Are we Bangladesh? We are celebrating 100 Test wickets now?

posted on 7/6/21

All you people that think England produce great bowlers consistently, name be a great bowler that has made their debut since the mid 2000s?

posted on 7/6/21

England have produced excellent quicks but not as great as South Africans or Aussies and the reason is they are too text book. Fast bowlers emanate from streets not nets like strikers in football

posted on 7/6/21

Tbf we may have just been spoiled by how good Broad and especially Jimmy is/was. We've had a lot of talented bowlers but no one that's been at their level for a consistent period

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I want my question answered, I am in the mood to get ‘owned’ again

Have we produced any great bowlers since Anderson, Broad and Swann?

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comment by JustTrue (U13155)
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I want my question answered, I am in the mood to get ‘owned’ again

Have we produced any great bowlers since Anderson, Broad and Swann?


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short answer is no for "great"...I have my doubts about Jofra Archer, as others probably do

posted on 7/6/21

No absolutely not

Giddins bowled well vs SA in 2003 and then did nothing

Mahmood did well against SL in 2006 and did nothing

Bresnan started well and I loved him actually but then he faded and in the end got only 72 Test wickets, that is disappointing

Finn was considered our new pace king, he looked a top bowler that could even do well in white ball cricket and then faded away.

I don’t consider 3-4 year careers successful careers, maybe you have loser expectations and would be happy with that, but it’s not enough for me.

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comment by GTWI4T- some people deserve to get trolled (U6008)
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comment by SWTN - Judas is number 1 (U7916)
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And the govt's reaction to this is appaling.it seems suddenly you can do what you feckin like if you are 18
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Why the fack they got involved, I have no idea.
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As a matter of curiosity , did the government comment on the continued booing of the the England team when they take the knee?

posted on 7/6/21

You seem to have extremely low expectations. That’s the problem. You consider 32 Test wickets a successful career.

I was quite excited about Onions, Tremlett, Bresnan, Finn, even Dernbach who all came into the team around early 2010s and all either faded away or got injured.

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comment by JustTrue (U13155)
posted 11 minutes ago
I want my question answered, I am in the mood to get ‘owned’ again

Have we produced any great bowlers since Anderson, Broad and Swann?


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Haven't needed to in terms of pace bowlers, but yes spin is a big miss.

posted on 7/6/21

You seem to be arguing for the sake or arguing. One point we both agree on is that we have not produced a great bowler since the mid 2000s however there are many occasions where a new bowler has come in and people have got excited only to find out it was another false dawn.

My opinion is that Robinson will be another disappointment, but if he proves me wrong, good luck to him.

However, now he has been suspended, we won’t find out. I’d rather he was still allowed to play so I can see if I was right.


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posted on 7/6/21

How many great bowlers did Australia produce when they had Lee Warne and Mcgrath?

Probably just 1 other in Gillespie.

posted on 7/6/21

comment by JustTrue (U13155)
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You seem to be arguing for the sake or arguing. One point we both agree on is that we have not produced a great bowler since the mid 2000s however there are many occasions where a new bowler has come in and people have got excited only to find out it was another false dawn.

My opinion is that Robinson will be another disappointment, but if he proves me wrong, good luck to him.

However, now he has been suspended, we won’t find out. I’d rather he was still allowed to play so I can see if I was right.



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He won't be suspended indefinitely

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posted on 7/6/21

You are right Giddins was earlier, the guy that did well vs SA in 2003 was James Kirtley. Another one to add to the list

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comment by SWTN - Judas is number 1 (U7916)
posted 39 minutes ago
How many great bowlers did Australia produce when they had Lee Warne and Mcgrath?

Probably just 1 other in Gillespie.
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This. You're hardly going to have a queue of 500+ wickets takers during a period where Anderson and Broad have largely reigned

posted on 7/6/21

Given there's only really 4 bowling spots, I'd say we've done pretty damn good to have 2 of those be occupied for 10+ years.

You're mad if you expect every single bowler to come in and hold down a place for that long.

posted on 7/6/21

Broad and Anderson should NEVER be compared to Warne and McGrath, especially Broad. That’s the first mistake there.

The fact that Lee and Gillespie still came through is already much more impressive than what we have achieved recently.

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